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Yes, DDR3, sorry for not specifying. Probably looking to start with 3-4gb to begin with.

Moving past that now, what do you guys recommend for a decent quality memory that's not going to cost an arm and a leg?

Thanks guys.

Can one put DDR2 in a board that supports DDR3? I heard the slots are physically different. Just here to confirm or deny said claims and make sure I'm buying the right parts.

I guess, depending on what space will be taken up by components and cable, you could try and setup a few small mirror pieces to try and setup the stereotypical "brilliance" you get out of cut stones...

thanks

Ok, so I'll just have to get the CPU same time as the board. The board I'm buying is AM3 only.

I'm an idiot... mental note, check dates

So, I'm going to begin upgrading my PC piecemeal style. I am thinking the MOBO is first. Can I put my athlon 64 x2 into an am3 slot and not have a problem? Or will it just not work?

Upgrading for the most part could be that way, but the mobo is an am2 slot, so anything am3 COULD fit, but wouldn't do near as good. :P

Plus, it was a second-hand system. I wouldn't mind getting...

I'm a cocktails and beer kind of guy. If there's no good beer, then I tend to stick with my cocktail standard: vodka/cranberry.

After doing too much heavy drinking and shots in college (and...

That evil face scares me....what kind of options are you thinking of?

Yeah I had heard about that. Hopefully when I upgrade the guts to something am3 socket based, it'll not be so funky with 64-bit OS.

I plan on going to something like a 2.6-3.2 quad-core (amd), definitely staying with nvidia though. I had bad experiences with ATI cards. I also plan on throwing another 1tb drive in (or 2 500mb more...

I honestly don't plan on putting anything else in the slots below anyway. I'll eventually upgrade the system to better guts, but that's in the future.

I have an apevia x-discovery for the case, it's pretty tight already, not sure if I could fit something that big.

Oh...well then I guess I shouldn't freak out so much about the GPU being 77c.

Thanks.

Speaking of other things though: I just got the 2 new fans from the UPS guy, time to slap em in and see if...

Well, the latest program reads: 47 and 42c (core 0 and 1 respectively).

I'll see what I can do for pics of the internals.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a129/blade55440/IMG_0551.jpg

Now I just need to figure out how to drop the GPU down from the 77c it's currently running... :smoker:

I'm going to probably buy a slot cooler in the near future.

Vantec

I wouldn't mind...

System:

Win 7 32bit
ASUS M2n-SLI Deluxe board
AMD Athlon II X2 Dual Core 5000+
Geforce 8800 GT
Corsair 1gb DD2 (not sure of anything else on it)
I believe the CPU cooler is the stock one.
...

Ok, installed speedfan and what I have so far is:

GPU: 77c
Temp1: 42c
Temp2: 41c
CPU: -64c (that can't be right)
Internal Temp: 37c
Remove Temp: -64c (once again...can't be right)
core: 19c

Update: I put in a better 120mm fan and manually set GPU fan to run 50%. CPU runs between 40-50c and GPU runs between 65-75c. Thanks guys!


I picked up a 2nd hand PC off a friend of mine, it...